Speaker Boehner? :puke:!!

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'Boehner for Speaker' scores big

House Minority Leader John Boehner collected $570,300 from 20 donors – almost all of it in June – under a new political arm called the “Boehner for Speaker Committee,” according to a report filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission.


The bulk of the money, $378,000, came from 10 people affiliated with the central Florida retirement community the Villages of Lake Sumter, including several members of a single family. And a pair of officials from the last Bush administration – John Snow, who was Treasury secretary; and Nick Calio, who was a White House congressional liaison – are also among the committee’s big-money donors.


The Ohio Republican’s haul shows how emergent “joint fundraising” committees allow a small group of donors to write large checks for several political committees all at once. Maximum checks of $37,800 are split three ways, with $30,400 going to the National Republican Congressional Committee, $5,000 to the Freedom Project, which is Boehner’s political action committee, and $2,400 to Boehner’s re-election fund.


The mechanism provides a convenience for donors and lawmakers – and it can help make for an eye-popping single-day total, like the $420,500 the Boehner for Speaker Committee collected on June 16.


In contrast, Rep. Steve Driehaus, a politically vulnerable Democratic freshman in a district adjacent to Boehner’s, raised $230,321 for the entire three-month period from April through June.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39818.html#ixzz0trcZF3WC

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[1776Forever]

1. Democrat Justin Coussoule running against Republican John Boehner

Home page: http://www.coussouleforcongress.com /

Democrat Justin Coussoule
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

http://ohio15th.blogspot.com/2010/06/democrat-justin-coussoule.html

Justin Coussoule, an attorney, a West Point graduate and former Army officer, is the Democratic candidate running against Republican John Boehner for Ohio's 8th congressional district. I had the honor of interviewing Justin Coussoule.

Justin Coussoule feels that our men and women who serve and have served in the military, are precious natural resources. We should honor our vets and make sure that they receive the proper medical, psychological, and emotional support they need in a timely manner.

Coussoule has called the oil spill in the gulf "an environmental nightmare." As a nation, he said, we should move toward clean energy and put our people to work to create clean sustainable energy. With unemployment at 12% in Boehner's district, Coussoule believes future jobs will be in the area of manufacturing products that promote clean energy. With empty businesses, storefronts, and unemployed citizens in the 8th district, Coussoule feels that Boehner has ignored the needs of his own constituents.

(More at both links)

[Blue Owl]

2. Florida & Ohio are stirring up some orange kool-aid

Nobody drink it!!!